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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 4:11:59 GMT 7
So, I was in Notting Hill having a couple of pints and wondering how to get to City of London Airport. Decided I would taxi it as I couldn't be bothered with the stifling heat and stairs on the underground etc.
I'll not do that again. Don't get me wrong, I appreciated the executive car with AC, but the traffic was just ridiculous - an hour and forty minutes for a ten mile journey.
City of London Airport - packed out, standing room only. It should be serving domestic flights only IMO, it can't hack the strain of the international flights. I had a cunning idea - if this were some place like China, they'd be filling in the waterway next to the runway and expanding the airport. There's some amount of wasted space in docklands - a lot of it should be drained and built on.
So, the flight left late - and arrived at Terminal One in Madrid fifty minutes behind schedule. Nightmare - 45 mins to connect to Terminal Four which is at least a mile away. After a bit of convo with the staff, and with several Mexicans piling up behind me wondering what this strange foreigner was saying, Madrid airport by-passed all security checks and sent a bus for us. We all boarded the aircraft just as the doors were closing.
We boarded, our bags didn't.
In fact, the bags of over fifty passengers didn't board - what a shambles at Mexico City Airport this morning. I wasn't stressed as I had a while to my connecting flight, other people missed their flights. The loudest group were a party of about thirty Mexican Jewish teenagers who were on their way back from a trip to Israel. Eventually, they all got kicked out, leaving one young man to tend to the paperwork for every missing case. He did well.
Mexico City Airport? poor - functional but poor. I will say flying over the city at 4.30 this morning was some sight. This country needs an airport to be proud of - Swampy is a palace compared to this.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 8:54:14 GMT 7
You need a skateboard and a horn of some sort, it'll all be worth it when your eating some real mexican food wearing your sombrero.
Dont sweat the small stuff
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Post by rgs2001uk on Jul 22, 2016 15:20:38 GMT 7
Mexican Jewish, the mind boggles,
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2016 5:27:32 GMT 7
My bag still hasn't arrived, which is fine, as my hotel has supplied me with all my "necessities," and will bill the airline for me. Airline agreed.
Good service that.
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Post by geronimo on Jul 23, 2016 5:40:58 GMT 7
I hear the beer is excellent over there.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2016 6:59:07 GMT 7
Dude you really travel the world and bother to spend time posting on here?
The mind boggles
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2016 7:12:27 GMT 7
Dude you really travel the world and bother to spend time posting on here? The mind boggles  This should be good ! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2016 9:03:30 GMT 7
Blether, the S.A. airport to beware of is Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Buenos Aires.
Never put any of your electrical kit in your checked in luggage.
As you queue up to check your luggage in the airport security will ask if you have any electrical equipment, they are not asking in order to help you, they are asking so that they know which bags to ransack once the bags have gone through.
I was approached and questioned by 3 security staff (one after the other) as I was waiting to check in.
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Post by siampolee on Jul 23, 2016 16:07:07 GMT 7
And not a baht bus to be seen no doubt all those missed man spreads too such a loss!!  Ah well let's hope the South American trip is fun !!! |
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Post by smokie36 on Jul 23, 2016 16:27:19 GMT 7
My bag still hasn't arrived, which is fine, as my hotel has supplied me with all my "necessities," and will bill the airline for me. Airline agreed. Good service that. What is the hotel rate for a half kilo of finest Colombian? |
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Post by me on Jul 23, 2016 16:32:22 GMT 7
My bag still hasn't arrived, which is fine, as my hotel has supplied me with all my "necessities," and will bill the airline for me. Airline agreed. Good service that. What is the hotel rate for a half kilo of finest Colombian? Depends on whether they have a room refrigerator or an ice box. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2016 16:43:12 GMT 7
Dude you really travel the world and bother to spend time posting on here? The mind boggles I do it to annoy my stalkers.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2016 16:55:18 GMT 7
Anyway, I'm a bit stuck on the edge of town - twenty minute drive to Downtown and I can't move until my bag arrives. As Tony pointed out, I have no faith in the baggage handling and even my hotel receptionist was bemused when she called the baggage agent in Mexico City when he said:
"Puerto Vallarta, where's that?"
Only one of the highest profile tourist resorts on the pacific coast of Mexico.
What's interesting about this hotel receptionist is that she's a white skinned Brazilian. Being a blether, as I obviously am, I found out that she is the granddaughter of two Germans who left Germany after the war. She's was a bit of an international traveler herself until she met and married a Mexican guy, hence why she is now here. Oh, and she's been to your favourite pizza place in Glasgow, Smokie - she agrees it's the best she's tried.
She's making it her mission to get the bag here today, I'll need to go collect it at the airport when it eventually arrives, and check if there's anything of value left in it. I wouldn't mind of they've stolen my camera, I could be doing with a new one.
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Post by smokie36 on Jul 23, 2016 19:04:08 GMT 7
Anyway, I'm a bit stuck on the edge of town - twenty minute drive to Downtown and I can't move until my bag arrives. As Tony pointed out, I have no faith in the baggage handling and even my hotel receptionist was bemused when she called the baggage agent in Mexico City when he said: "Puerto Vallarta, where's that?" Only one of the highest profile tourist resorts on the pacific coast of Mexico. What's interesting about this hotel receptionist is that she's a white skinned Brazilian. Being a blether, as I obviously am, I found out that she is the granddaughter of two Germans who left Germany after the war. She's was a bit of an international traveler herself until she met and married a Mexican guy, hence why she is now here. Oh, and she's been to your favourite pizza place in Glasgow, Smokie - she agrees it's the best she's tried. She's making it her mission to get the bag here today, I'll need to go collect it at the airport when it eventually arrives, and check if there's anything of value left in it. I wouldn't mind of they've stolen my camera, I could be doing with a new one. Is her name Helga Himmler? I might have had a dalliance behind a garage in Shettleston. |
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Post by siampolee on Jul 24, 2016 7:39:02 GMT 7
Ve haf de vays to find your baggage Herr Blether.  |
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